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[idiosyncreant]

I watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last week, and it was fun, Shia was adorable (can't say the same in this latest Transformers, he's kinda an ass) and the aliens camptastic...

I think I know why people didn't think it was awesome.

I think it's because they forgot that the originals were kinda cheesy and politically incorrect, since they've lasted long enough to become iconic.

There were definitely some problematic things (seriously? indigenous peoples as props?) but I thought it was on about par with the first, which I watched earlier this year. LOVED the library parts.

full disclosure: this is the level I've played and won on Lego: Indy, before I saw ANY of the movies.

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TRON
was fascinating, because I knew it was prime nerd material, but that somehow had not prepared me for the utter seriousness of it. It's a movie that was quite as earnest about it's SF plotline as Star Wars, and played off the limits of its CG as a sort of aid to the atmosphere.
It also starred an adorable Jeff Bridges (to think I'd ever say that! ...I met him as Obadiah in Iron Man, so) who was completely wasted once in the program-gladiator suit, because his dimples were only rarely in appearance and his face desaturated, and there was no awesome 80s curls...

I'm planning to watch the recent sequel soon. Don't bother saying don't bother, it's RESEARCH.

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Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Dittoing what Quark said--the aliens were okay but not nearly as awesome as the Grail or the Ark. (My family skipped Temple of Doom, and from what I've seen of it, I don't mind missing it.) I basically liked everything else about Crystal Skull, because I love Shia and ALSO I LOVE SURPRISE SECRET CHILDREN AND ALSO INDY AND MARION GOT MARRIED WHICH I ALSO HAD BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE I WAS TWELVE but I only had to wait like tenish years so not that bad really.

and DEFINITELY bother watching the new Tron, even though omg it too totally fits into my new "science fiction is becoming syfy" thing I just came up with. But oh man I went to see it in I-MAX with Gingerbread (Lovie's boyfriend) and it was awesome.

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Yay, I will! I think its the kind of movie I find fun anyhow, which is why I was determined to, but seems a lot of my people think it's worth watching anyway.